A review by ebonyutley
The Plot Against Hip Hop by Nelson George

It’s been a couple days since I finished the book so this review will be thin, but maybe that’s appropriate because The Plot Against Hip Hop is a slim volume. It has great descriptions, though. Some of George’s lines are just beautiful. I thought, oh my God, I can see that; I can feel this. Simply wonderful, but then I wished the characters spoke to each other more. I missed the dialog. The book is also discontinuous as in “wait, weren’t we just someplace else,” but I guess that comes with the short novel territory. And at the end, I was like, really? I hate a quick dénouement. It ruins the murder mystery steez to wrap it up so neatly and so quickly. I wanted more conflict, more drama, just more. But I suppose it did what 174 pages could do.